The more the man urged him to run, the less he hurried. He looked up and surveyed the office, and sure enough, there was a water dispenser in the corner.
After several consecutive battles, he was already parched. He walked over, picked up a disposable paper cup, filled it with seven or eight cups of water, and gulped them down in one go.
Refreshing.
He then saw a low table nearby with several roasted chickens and pig trotters on it. Zhang Wei was overjoyed, picked up a braised pig trotter, and started gnawing on it.
Dozens of people in the office watched Zhang Wei eat and drink, not daring to utter a single word.
After eating and drinking his fill, Zhang Wei went to the window and looked down.
What he saw downstairs greatly surprised him.
He saw only identical buildings outside, and in the open square below, dozens of armed security guards were gathering from all directions towards this building.
Holy cow!
Murderous intent flashed in Zhang Wei’s eyes. “I’ll let you gather,” he thought, casually picking up a cloth bag from the table. He went to the corridor, rummaged through the pile of minced meat, and found more than ten grenades and over twenty intact magazines.
He stuffed them all into the cloth bag, came to the window, and those people seemed to have finished gathering. There were thirty to forty of them, dressed and looking similar to the security guards Zhang Wei had just killed—thick, short, and dark. They were now lining up and calling out numbers.
Looking at the group of Xiao Heizi, Zhang Wei took a grenade, pulled out the pin, counted to three, and threw it down towards the crowd.
He was probably on the sixth or seventh floor, looking down from above. The grenade arced in a parabola, and two seconds later, it exploded in the air above the crowd.
Boom!
The airburst fully unleashed the grenade's power. The hundreds of steel balls and fragments inside the grenade instantly took down a large number of people.
Screams rose and fell, and the square was like a purgatory. The Blackies never expected to suffer such an attack on their own territory.
These people were well-trained. Upon hearing the explosion, some instinctively ducked, while others began to scatter and flee.
Zhang Wei, not one to do things by halves, kept going, throwing out more than ten grenades consecutively. After the explosions, there was no one left standing downstairs.
Except for a few quick-witted ones who managed to escape, everyone else was wiped out in the square.
“Mere rabble, easily defeated.”
Zhang Wei clapped his hands and tied the cloth bag to his waist. With over twenty magazines and ten grenades, it must have weighed over ten to twenty catties. Fortunately, the cloth bag was quite sturdy.
According to what that man had said earlier, this was already the territory of the native foreigners. These items were crucial for his life, so he had to take them seriously.
Wails of agony echoed from the square, and at this point, the office reacted. Dozens of men and women, as if on cue, saw a shifty-eyed fellow somehow manage to unlock his handcuffs. He went to the window and saw the scene below.
“The security guards outside are all dead. Does anyone dare to run? I’ll lead the way.”
Zhu Zi shouted loudly to the people in the room.
“Take me with you! Take me with you!”
Hope instantly filled the eyes of everyone in the office, and they all expressed their desire to run together.
Zhu Zi used a thin steel wire to unlock everyone’s handcuffs one by one. Only then did he approach Zhang Wei with some trepidation and say:
“Brother, you’re impressive. Thank you for this. We’ll meet again.”
Zhang Wei was noncommittal.
Once free, several people in the room immediately wanted to escape.
Zhu Zi stopped them, then advised, “There are too few of us. Let me go gather everyone from the other groups. We’ll all run together. There’s strength in numbers, and the success rate will be higher.”
This argument was quite persuasive. After a few words, the rest of them agreed to listen to him.
Zhu Zi, suppressing his nausea, rummaged through the pile of corpses in the corridor for a while and found several keys on the bodies of the guards Zhang Wei had blown up. He picked a few people and sent them to unlock and rescue people in the other rooms.
Zhang Wei did not stop them. Two of the more nimble ones even found a few intact AKs among the corpses.
The man with the gun in his hand immediately became bolder. It was the same man Zhang Wei had initially questioned.
He pointed the gun at Zhang Wei: “You, go first. Go scout the way.”
Zhang Wei put down the pig trotter in his hand, pulled out a few napkins from the tissue box on the table to wipe his hands clean, and while pulling out his pistol from his waistband, he muttered to himself:
“You moron, have you never handled a gun? The safety isn’t even off. Who are you trying to threaten?”
The man was startled and fumbled with the gun in a panic.
Bang!
Zhang Wei shot him down, then spat, “Moron!”
At this moment, the noise in the hallway grew loud. Seven or eight rooms, each with fifty to sixty people typing on keyboards and making calls, totaling four to five hundred people.
As soon as these people came out and saw the corpses in the hallway, a chorus of screams erupted. Some even rushed forward, furiously punching and kicking the bodies, as if they held deep grudges.
Zhu Zi moved a stool and stood on it, shouting loudly:
“Brothers and sisters, the company’s guards have all been killed by that hero. Now is the perfect opportunity to escape. Those with guts, follow me and run now!”
“Run!”
The crowd roared, shouting madly. With someone leading the way, hundreds of people immediately rushed downstairs.
In less than a few minutes, the hallway was completely empty.
“Why aren’t you running yet?”
Zhang Wei looked at Zhu Zi in front of him. He asked while packing the leftover roasted chicken and pig trotters from the table into a plastic bag.
Zhu Zi looked at Zhang Wei fearfully, but finally, mustering his courage, he said:
“I feel safer running with you.”
“You are quite clever,” Zhang Wei said, looking at him with a half-smile.
Seeing that Zhang Wei didn't explicitly agree to take him along, Zhu Zi grew anxious and quickly said, “I’m quite familiar with this area. Judging by your appearance, brother, you must have just been kidnapped. I can be useful to you.”
Zhang Wei packed the food and put two bottles of mineral water into his bag.
Suddenly, gunfire erupted outside. The rattling of gunshots mingled with the screams of people, creating a cacophony.
Zhang Wei frowned and went to the window. He saw several security guards in the square firing wildly at the fleeing crowd, mowing them down in large swaths.
Zhang Wei was furious. “Damn it, this is a massacre! How dare these Xiao Heizi!”
He took a grenade from his bag and threw it out with a backhand.
He was now skilled at using grenades, accurately throwing it directly above the heads of those security guards.
Boom! The security guards fell in response.
The crowd surged out frantically, and people also started running out from the other buildings, more and more of them. Finally, thousands of people were jammed at the main entrance, unable to get out for a while, creating a chaotic bottleneck.
Zhang Wei shook his head. In this situation, he was helpless.
He turned and called to Zhu Zi.
“Let’s go!”
The man was overjoyed and immediately walked out ahead.
Upon reaching the initial floor, Zhang Wei stopped Zhu Zi and checked all the rooms on that floor. Sure enough, there were still people locked inside; more than ten men and women were handcuffed to iron bunk beds, their eyes vacant and faces expressionless.
Zhang Wei motioned for Zhu Zi to unlock them.
Although the man’s face was filled with anxiety, he still obeyed Zhang Wei’s command, pulled out a thin wire, and released everyone.
When they arrived at the original operating room, there was no one left inside. The two female nurses had long since vanished, and even the bodies of the two men on the floor were gone.
“Damn it, those bastards are meticulous in their work.”